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The use of cannabis for medical purposes in Denmark

03.03.2017

The results obtained as a result of this kind of research were so encouraging that all factions of the legislature of the kingdom supported the need for the use of cannabis for medical purposes of the experiment.

According to a survey conducted by the sociological services in the country, more than 80 percent of the citizens of Denmark in favor of regulatory support the possibility of using psychoactive cannabis for medical purposes. Only 5 percent of respondents to the adoption of this kind of legal acts and 15 per cent of respondents are undecided with his opinion on this issue.

Taking into account the results of previous studies, in November 2016 the country's legislature passed a decision, according to which from 1 January 2018, on the territory of the Kingdom of Denmark to begin a four-year experiment on the medical use of psychoactive hemp.

The representative of the Danish Society for the fight against multiple sclerosis Lasse Skovgaad (Lasse Skovgaard) during his interview to the Danish news agency said that the citizens understand that certain groups of patients have specific medical conditions that can not be solved by conventional medicine, but they cannabis may help.

According to the chairman of the Danish Society for the treatment of arthritis Bride Linda Mette (Mette Bryde Lind), «it is not surprising that Denmark is a huge number of people support the use of cannabis for medical purposes. In the normal course of business, we can observe a large number of people suffering from arthritis or other types of chronic pain. It is not that these people are not trying to improve their quality of life through relief of pain in all possible and available at the moment modern facilities, but most of them use modern methods to reduce pain do not bring. So why are these people who are constantly suffering from pain to deny the possibility of using the properties of cannabis to reduce or relief of pain. "

A press release from the Danish Ministry of Health indicated that one of the main objectives of this kind of experiment is the ability of individual patients that are currently engaged in self and acquire cannabis on the illegal market, to receive quality medical care, as well as the use of psychoactive cannabis for medical purposes legally ".

Comment of the Association "Ukrainian industrial hemp"

At the moment, the Danish doctors officially recognized that multiple sclerosis, chronic pain, spinal cord injury, as well as nausea and vomiting caused by chemotherapy can effectively be treated with cannabis. Danish Parliament took a decision to hold this kind of four-year experiment on the basis of studies that the Danish government officially funded for 2015-2016 gg. The results obtained as a result of this kind of research were so encouraging that all factions of the legislature of the kingdom supported the need for the use of cannabis for medical purposes of the experiment.

It would like to see this kind of unanimity expressed our country's parliamentarians in the review of changes to the Law of Ukraine "On Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Precursors", proposals which were initiated by professional associations Ukrainian growers.